Health care’s employment growth clouded by immigration crackdown, Medicaid cuts

KFF Health News – Tuesday, September 30, 2025
By Phillip Reese

About 11.4% of the nation’s nonfarm workers were employed in the health care sector in August, compared with about 7.3% in January 1990. Economists say President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and cuts to public insurance programs threaten to dampen that growth. The health care sector is unusually dependent on foreign-born workers, while a new law trimming federal spending on the $900-billion-a-year Medicaid program is projected, based on a preliminary version of the bill, to trigger the loss of 1.2 million jobs nationwide, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

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